"Your purpose when driving is not to arrive at your destination safely or quickly. Your purpose when driving is...to impress your personality on the road."

-- Martin Amis

#Personality Quotes #Purpose Quotes #Driving Quotes

“When I'm in New York I look at the Empire State Building and feel as though it belongs to me ... or is it vice versa?”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". The New York Times interview, www.imdb.com. 1969.
“One of my pet theories is that readers have built-in BS detectors that enable them to recognize insincerity in writers. David [Halberstam] was sincerity to the core. He believed in what he wrote, and that conviction conveyed itself to readers.”

Source : "David Halberstam". The Washington Post Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. April 24, 2007.
“I think it's fun to have work that you can relate to, that you can feel like is meaningful.”

Source : "The Cast of Ice Princess speak!". movieweb.com. March 16, 2005.
“With my own group I like to keep it loose. They have to counter rather than go with me. When they stop I like to be moving.”
“Academic writing you have to get right. Fiction you have to get plausible. And there's a world of difference.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don't make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion faster than adults, and evasion simply muddles 'em.”
“I really like working with unique and unknown artists, as they usually bring something fresh to a song.”
“Analysts have always been overly optimistic.”

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